Max Lamb presents a new body of work at New York\u2019s Salon 94 Gallery (until 21 September 2021): titled \u2018Wood, Stone\u2019, this is the third in a series of solo exhibitions exploring \u2018a direct, honest, and playful approach to materials\u2019.\nAs the exhibition title suggests, \u2018Wood, Stone\u2019 presents two separate...
Presented at New York’s Salon 94, ‘Wood, Stone’ features experimental furniture designs by Max Lamb in the two materials, exploring complex manufacturing techniquesMax Lamb’s ‘Campione’ chair photographed among the natural stone in the Pedretti quarry in Northern Italy.
pieces in Western Red Cedarwood, and a collection of chairs in stone, part of an ongoing collaboration with Italian granite specialist Pedretti. The pieces in both series consist in interlocking forms with a mix of straight, curved and scalloped edges, eclectically-formed blocks composed into familiar furniture shapes. For the wooden pieces, Lamb describes his creative process as a puzzle in reverse.
‘Each cut is mapped out and the consequence of the cut is processed before the incision is made, every cut and part generated is essential,’ says Lamb. ‘What is taken away cannot be too big or the grain is weakened, but each cut yields a positive and the benefit of the cut is potential for the block of wood to become something else with a larger surface area with more function.
Far from an isolated creative exercise, the process behind each collection and piece is a combination of concentration and precision. Concludes Lamb" ‘each move is considered, exact and focused whilst also requiring a view on the macro, the whole, the end game.
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